The season of giving continued to overload our worn down senses on Friday night. Local mainstream rock station The Blitz brought a handful of bands to the Express Live! stage to festively yell at microphones and beat-up instruments to a packed crowd. The blitz-nation ended the year with headbanging and devil-horns for this year’s Blitzmas 2018. Featured on this year’s […]

It’s Chriiiiiiiiiiistmas! (again), and after the high tempo and fun-packed evening we were given from Side A on Friday, the CD102.5 Holiday Show Side B on Sunday evening had a lot to live up to, and it did, sort of, but mostly thanks to a blindingly brilliant closing set from Manchester Orchestra. Opening the evening […]

It’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiistmas! Or, at least, it’s Christmas concert season, and for CD102.5 that means not one, but two value packed concerts cram packed with a mix of some of the best established and up and coming talent currently taking up airtime on our treasured local radio station. Friday night’s Side A show featured four bands […]

With a number one album, gigs in front of tens of thousands of adoring fans, and a whole host of awards, it’s fair to say that Gang of Youths are a pretty big deal in Australia. Although they were the first band to perform for the Aussie version of MTV Unplugged, they’re still relatively unknown on […]

California-born and Ohio-raised alt-country rock star Elle King stopped by Columbus on Friday night, performing to a packed crowd at the Newport Music Hall. King is currently out on tour for her second album, Shake the Spirit. Nashville country rock act Cordovas opened for the evening. Matt Ellis is a freelance photographer who covers bands […]

It’s a Wednesday evening in Columbus, and British-American soft-rock-band-turned-soap-opera Fleetwood Mac are across the street playing to a packed Nationwide Arena. Upstairs, it’s one-man-dance-party and presser-of-buttons Robert DeLong entertaining a sold out A&R Bar. But downstairs at the Basement? Well, downstairs is where the cool kids are, all 10 of them, for the blisteringly good, […]

A managerial stroke of genius from Columbus Crew SC boss Gregg Berhalter set up the black and gold to grab a precious victory during Sunday’s first-leg Semifinal. Crew SC held off the Supporters Shield winning New York Red Bulls 1-0 at a euphoric MAPFRE Stadium. Berhalter did the unexpected and put midfield maestro and on-form […]